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Telegraph takeover approved
Western Daily Press
|April 15, 2026
THE years-long saga over the Daily Telegraph's ownership is poised to reach a conclusion, after the government announced it had approved Axel Springer’s offer for the broadsheet newspaper.
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The German publishing giant, which owns Politico, Business Insider and the Bild tabloid, said yesterday that Britain’s Department for Culture Media and Sport had given it the green light to press ahead with its £575m deal to buy the Telegraph Media Group.
This story is from the April 15, 2026 edition of Western Daily Press.
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